Paul Tavatgis
@paultavatgis.bsky.social
I can't explain myself, not just like this. I'm a complicated person, sometimes I'm nice, and sometimes I'm nasty. Naval history (BPF) Lego, Arsenal FC. Minor greek deity (salad dressing). Meanjin/Brisbane on Yuggera/Turrbal land. AI slop = block. He/Him.
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
two men are standing next to each other with the caption these are people of the land
Alt: two men are standing next to each other with the caption these are people of the land
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December 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”
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Cassandra the Information Technology Wobbegong is here to help... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Datacentres – why are they so thirsty? Let’s ask a shark! | First Dog on the Moon
Do we even want or need all these datacentres? That is apparently none of your business
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December 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Cassandra the Information Technology Wobbegong is here to help... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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People who think like this have no business in the business of war. It's not heroic to watch someone die alone and in pain. It's not honorable to watch someone cry to their God or their mother.
We have Laws about such things.
We have Laws about such things.
December 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
People who think like this have no business in the business of war. It's not heroic to watch someone die alone and in pain. It's not honorable to watch someone cry to their God or their mother.
We have Laws about such things.
We have Laws about such things.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Melbourne's State Library of Victoria – the third most popular library in the world! – is being threatened with cuts to staff and facilities. Add your name to the petition to save jobs and resources www.change.org/p/save-the-s...
Sign the Petition
Save the State Library of Victoria!
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December 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Melbourne's State Library of Victoria – the third most popular library in the world! – is being threatened with cuts to staff and facilities. Add your name to the petition to save jobs and resources www.change.org/p/save-the-s...
Mama, just killed a man...
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Mama, just killed a man...
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Also for your listening pleasure
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Also for your listening pleasure
Today I have learned for the eleventy-twelth time that solving the puzzles presented by numbers on screens and small pieces of plastic (#lego) are much easier to solve than those posed by sentient meat and gravy sacks (#colleagues)
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Today I have learned for the eleventy-twelth time that solving the puzzles presented by numbers on screens and small pieces of plastic (#lego) are much easier to solve than those posed by sentient meat and gravy sacks (#colleagues)
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
#lego underway - an attempt at a fully SNOT model of HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913). Hoping I've not bitten off more than I can chew. The tan colour is going quite well to simulate the teak deck planking.
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 AM
#lego underway - an attempt at a fully SNOT model of HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913). Hoping I've not bitten off more than I can chew. The tan colour is going quite well to simulate the teak deck planking.
Anyone who doesn't want yet more giant towers with no affordable housing and no increased public transport links in South Brisbane - sign here: www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-...
| Queensland Parliament
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Anyone who doesn't want yet more giant towers with no affordable housing and no increased public transport links in South Brisbane - sign here: www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-...
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Happy to announce Badger's Billionaire Relocation Concierge.
It's absolutely not a fancy building with a bottomless pit down the hallway. Honest.
It's absolutely not a fancy building with a bottomless pit down the hallway. Honest.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Happy to announce Badger's Billionaire Relocation Concierge.
It's absolutely not a fancy building with a bottomless pit down the hallway. Honest.
It's absolutely not a fancy building with a bottomless pit down the hallway. Honest.
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The one where the cat totally fails to scare the bird
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The one where the cat totally fails to scare the bird
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Fiona the Precariously Employed Bettong has an important message for Australia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Welfare in Australia is a cruel shambles. How about we actually try to help people not squish them | First Dog on the Moon
What should the government do? Damnation and mouldy figs to the lot of them
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October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Fiona the Precariously Employed Bettong has an important message for Australia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Police have released CCTV footage of the Louvre robbers escaping.
October 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Police have released CCTV footage of the Louvre robbers escaping.
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This x1,000,000. Especially in Brisbane, where it seems, for some people life is not complete without using a noisy internal combustion engine for every conceivable purpose.
This x1,000,000. Especially in Brisbane, where it seems, for some people life is not complete without using a noisy internal combustion engine for every conceivable purpose.
Are leaf blowers really necessary? The answer is blowin’ in the wind | Jess Harwood
What’s wrong with a rake?
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October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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This x1,000,000. Especially in Brisbane, where it seems, for some people life is not complete without using a noisy internal combustion engine for every conceivable purpose.
This x1,000,000. Especially in Brisbane, where it seems, for some people life is not complete without using a noisy internal combustion engine for every conceivable purpose.
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With heatwave conditions forecast all this week, wildlife will be seeking water. If they fall into a #pool, they'll likely #drown.
2 grass mats (or similar) are an easy solution but TIE the mat to something too - a brick is not enough as dogs/cats/larger marsupials will pull a brick into a pool.
2 grass mats (or similar) are an easy solution but TIE the mat to something too - a brick is not enough as dogs/cats/larger marsupials will pull a brick into a pool.
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness
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It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.
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Who robbed the Louvre?
Right answers only.
Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Who robbed the Louvre?
Right answers only.
Right answers only.